1A timing device with two connected glass bulbs containing sand that takes an hour to pass from the upper to the lower bulb.
‘The invention of timekeeping devices - hourglasses, water clocks, graduated tapers - made it possible for early civilized people to begin to control and standardize the units of time, and in doing so to coordinate their lives.’
‘When you run out of paper or the words you write are jumbled up, think of the hourglass passing sand from the top to the bottom.’
‘The last sands of the hourglass passed through and it turned over, beginning again.’
‘The Four Horsemen, whose appearance, experts believe, marks the imminence of a major conflict, are armed with state-of-the-art swords, scythes and hourglasses, as well as a fully operational last trumpet.’
‘By ‘them’ we mean creations inspired by such everyday objects as bottle gourds, pipettes and pumpkins, not to mention hourglasses and Japanese dining tables.’
‘Their lives are represented by the flows of hourglasses.’
‘An expensive chronometer would help here, but one or more well-made hourglasses will also do just fine.’
‘Using simple blocks with shapes like cubes or hourglasses, researchers have found ways to construct strong panels with no fasteners securing most of the blocks.’
‘We have also projected out, using black hourglasses, a possible path for the propensity to hold U.S. currency.’
‘They were staring down in horror, still clutching the hourglasses.’
‘Like sands through the hourglass, these are the stars of our lives.’
‘Long may the days of our lives run like sand through her hourglass.’
‘But the sand in which you are drawing the line is the sand of the hourglass.’
‘Like sand through the hourglass, these are the days of our lives.’
‘Note the inverted hearts, the tree, the anchor, and the sand glass or hourglass.’
‘It went down brilliantly until the day my friend thumped the hourglass - and sand began to trickle through.’
‘I'm constantly aware of the ticking of the clock and at any point in the day I can hear the gentle hiss of the sand in the hourglass.’
‘Let them slip away like the fine sand in an hourglass, one or many at a time, till there remains nothing.’
‘At about one o'clock I was still awake, sitting patiently with the lights off, watching the gold sand in the hourglass trickling with an almost painful laziness.’
‘It suddenly melted away like sand in an hourglass.’
1.1as modifierShaped like an hourglass.
‘her hourglass figure’
‘Often these ideals take the form of ridiculously unfeasible forms with unhealthily exaggerated hourglass figures.’
‘She's still a girl, but she's got that hourglass figure, and she really enhances it.’
‘If you are blessed with a curvy, hourglass figure, then a corset or basque will certainly make the most of your assets.’
‘She has brown hair, brown eyes, is about medium height, and a not quite hourglass figure.’
‘The actress admitted dressing to flatter her voluptuous figure and hourglass curves is by no means an easy task.’
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